(Minghui.org) Practitioners held an event in Auckland’s Commercial Bay on Saturday March 29, 2025, and introduced Falun Dafa through exercise demonstrations and information displays. Some people learned the exercises on the spot.
Practitioners did the Falun Dafa exercises in downtown Auckland on March 29, 2025.
Wearing yellow tops and white pants, practitioners did the exercises along with the soothing music. The orderly and peaceful scene prompted people to stop and watch. There was a constant flow of foot traffic in the area and a huge cruise ship stopped by the bay. Tourists from around the world, as well as local shoppers, stopped at the information booth. Some read the information displayed while others took photos or spoke with the practitioners to find out more about Falun Dafa. Some people learned the exercises on the spot.
Passersby read the information about Falun Dafa.
People spoke to practitioners to find out more about Falun Dafa.
People sign the petition to call for an end to the persecution in China.
A Strong Energy
Kapia
Kapia, an IT programmer from India, said that meditating is an important part of his life. He recently met practitioners who were introducing Falun Dafa during an event, and learned the five sets of exercises. He came today to do the group exercises. He said excitedly, “I love Falun Dafa—it makes me want to practice cultivation. Just now, while doing the sitting meditation with everyone, I felt as if I was sitting in a giant ball filled with energy. I can feel a strong energy. This energy field helps us in our meditation.”
He explained, “In India, many people have a hard life, and it’s very difficult to find a job. When people ask for help, I tell them that they can try to meditate, and the energy from the universe will help them. When you meditate and look within, your body is filled with energy, and you’ll gain what is yours.”
I Love This Practice
Bryan and Alexandra learned the Falun Dafa exercises.
Bryan and his friend Alexandra, from Peru, learned the exercises during the event. Bryan works in a sales job in New Zealand, and said, “I love this practice, it connects us to the universe. I can understand the meaning of the teachings, there is meaning behind every movement. My instincts tell me that doing the exercises can improve my health. If I do them every day, it will also lessen anxiety.”
Bryan has had asthma since he was a child. He said, “When I did the exercises, my breathing became smoother, I feel my lungs getting better.”
Alexandra said, “I felt very relaxed and peaceful when I did the exercises. The principles Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance are excellent!”
People Support Falun Dafa
Santo Triiolo (center) and his wife Carol (right) listened as a practitioner told them about Falun Dafa.
Santo Triolo and his wife Carol are tourists from Australia. Santo said after watching practitioners’ group exercises, “We don’t see something like this often. We saw a lot of peace and their tranquility. However, our world is not so peaceful—it’s filled with pain, and war.”
When he learned that practitioners in China cannot publicly practice the exercises, he said, “It’s hard to believe. We support the human rights of Falun Dafa practitioners. I also heard their organs are taken without consent by the CCP, and this is shocking. It’s terrible. The CCP suppresses Falun Dafa in order to control people—just like North Korea, where people can’t do anything. To the CCP, people are just numbers.”
His wife Carol said, “We don’t want to go to China because of the way the CCP treats its people, we don’t trust the regime.”
Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance Uplifts People’s Morality
Vicky who is Chinese, says she supports Falun Dafa. She said there are no human rights in China, no freedom of speech, and she abhored what the CCP is doing, so she left the country. She’s lived in New Zealand for a decade. She thinks the CCP’s reports about Falun Dafa are lies because her husband practiced Falun Dafa in China when he was a young boy. He stopped practicing out of fear after the persecution began, but they know that Falun Dafa is good.
She said, “Falun Dafa treats people with honesty, and practitioners are not resentful when they’re treated unjustly. Learning Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance uplifts people’s morality.”
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